Alayna on trampoline

Grandma riding the go-cart

Being a "beautiful bear" while jamming to music

Ty "behind bars"

"Behind bars"

August 8, 2005

August 8, 2005
Well, we just got back last night from a busy and fun weekend in Illinois. We drove to the Harts house on Friday night. On Saturday morning, Bob and I attended the ward temple trip and then went out to lunch together. It is really nice to go out without kids sometimes! Then we came back to their house and had a relaxing day. We went to church with them in the morning, had a nice afternoon and then drove home last night. It is so fun to have them close by and it was great to be able to go to the temple. The kids spent the time mattress sliding down the stairs, jumping on the trampoline, riding the go-cart, and playing with the marble machine. They sure love going to visit!

Last week we registered Kayla and Tyler for school. Kayla got the teacher she wanted ("The nicest teacher in 4th grade") She was starting to have anxiety attacks again. However, I haven’t heard anything since she found out who her teacher was. Whew! We were also able to order school supply packets so I didn’t have to go school shopping for all the supplies. What a cool deal! We sign up Marisa today and get her pictures taken for school and her ID tag. She also has an orthodontist appt today- busy day!

Well, we are finally getting lots of tomatoes off our plants. However, the bunnies discovered them and we keep finding tomatoes with big bites out of them! Plus, a few weeks ago, we found a bunny hole nest with about 4 dead baby bunnies. So, we decided to plug all the holes into our yard to keep them out. On Thursday night, just as Bob finished filling the last hole, Marisa found a hole in the ground with a live baby bunny. As I looked in to the hole, we found there were 5 baby bunnies!!!!! Their eyes were still shut and they were very tiny. We put them in a box and tried to ask neighbors what to do. The advice was to put them back in the hole and see if the mother comes back. If not, we needed to take them to the humane society. So- we unfilled one hole and sure enough the mom was back that night. We check on them each day and they are growing and doing fine. The mom comes to feed them about 2 times a day that we see. We will wait til they are big enough for the mom to take them with her and then we will plug the last hole. In the meantime, we are trying to find ways to protect our tomatoes and kill these stupid Japanese beetles that keep attacking my roses.

I guess that’s our weekly report. Until next week...

Tyler's new uniform